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Is this true? Lol singapore one confirm true http://onairpk.com/24-weird-laws-around-the-world/

Wonder if anyone can help to interpret if the following scenario is against the anti competition laws locally. Imagine a landlord of a commercial building decided not to renew the lease of the existing tenant even though the tenant is willing to pay for an increased in rental and then choose to bring in another tenant operating the same business to take over the space.

from yahoo : New jobs laws bite into Singapore food outlets, rents Singapore's restrictions on importing foreign labor have made it tough for the city-state's retailers and food outlets to find workers, limiting expansion plans and damping retail rents. "Almost everyone is facing labor problems," said Alan Cheong, senior director for Singapore at real-estate service provider Savills, citing feedback from the company's retail team. The Singapore government, which has faced public opposition to the country's liberal immigration policies, has announced a slew of measures this year to limit the influx of foreign workers to ease pressures on the public transportation system and housing cost increases. Foreigners - which make up almost 40 percent of Singapore's population of 5.4 million - are an important source of cheap employment, particularly for the country's manufacturing, construction and services sectors. "It's holding back the expansion plans of tenants and as a result of that, the demand for space was lacking in the third quarter. That caused rents to be a bit soft," Cheong said. Savills noted rents for the third quarter in the prime Orchard Road shopping belt slipped 1.5 percent from the second quarter, while the vacancy rate rose to 7.7 percent from 7.3 percent a quarter earlier. The company attributes the developments to the foreign labor restrictions stymieing retailers' expansion plans. read more of the stories, link : http://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/jobs-laws-bite-singapore-food-232916973.html Prepare for a $10/- a bowl of fishball noodle or $2.50 per cup of kopi sui-tai at a normal coffee shop ....

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Changing alimony laws will get women back to work: Source Straits Times Date 14 Dec 2012 IT IS perhaps timely to relook the long-standing alimony laws to encourage more women to return to work ("Keep kids in school till 7pm so mums can go to work?"; last Friday). In Scandinavian countries such as Sweden, alimony laws, along with other measures like extensive childcare facilities, serve to keep women in the workforce. Alimony is seldom granted except in certain circumstances where a spouse becomes financially needy upon a divorce. This sends a strong signal to women that they are responsible for their own finances after divorce. As such, most women continue working while having a family. In Singapore, however, the option of alimony is open to every married woman no matter how well off or highly educated she is. This safety net makes it less risky for her to quit her job to meet the needs of her family. Should her marriage fail, she can depend on alimony payment from her former husband to tide her over. Laws enacted to enforce alimony payment further strengthens the idea that staying home poses little financial risk. Alimony laws in Singapore were forged in the 60s when most women were homemakers. The economic situation of women has improved tremendously over the years. Many are now highly educated and pursuing successful careers. The laws need to move with the times. Access to alimony should be restricted to women from the low educational and income levels and when they could be in a dire financial situation upon divorce. This will send a strong message, especially to highly-educated women, that staying home would no longer be a viable option for them. Sulthan Niaz Source: Straits Times

Hi guys, I have a problem here. My partner's parents are presurring me to meet up with them, but the thing is, we are barely officially together for 2 weeks and I am not even sure if the r/s will end up well. In short, experimenting stage. Her parents from what I heard is the very old fashion kind and any meet ups will imply that we are heading towrads something very serious like marriage. That scares me. but i understand from their view point as well cos my partner is not young anymore (30 this year). I also do not want to put my partner in a spot be it now or if it doesnt work out in the future yet how do i tell her that? cos you know, women are very sensitive one. 1 If the meet up really take place, does that mean closing the exit door if it ever happens 2 Any bros here kena like dat before and how to siam thanks

Do I need to give angpow to my parent in laws during CNY when my wife have already given them ?

Drink driving becomes "unfit to drive !!!" ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mar 15, 2011 Aussie spared jail due to judge's lapse Originally charged with drink-driving, he was convicted on amended charge without proof By Khushwant Singh AN AUSTRALIAN had his three-week jail term for being unfit to drive set aside, after the High Court found it 'troubling' that he was convicted on an amended charge without being given the opportunity to defend himself. Justice Steven Chong said the non-compliance with the Criminal Procedure Code was particularly serious in this case, as the prosecution had not produced evidence to support the amended charge. On June 23, 2008, John Peter Worrall, 60, the vice-president of oil company Swiber Offshore Construction, was driving home to his Bayshore condominium in East Coast at 11pm, after meeting colleagues at Harry's Bar in Far East Shopping Centre. His car went up a kerb and hit a tree along Bayshore Road. He was later arrested for drink-driving. After an eight-day trial that ended in August last year, he was convicted not of drink-driving, but of being unfit to drive. He was also convicted of not exercising due care and attention while driving, causing the accident - a charge he faced originally in addition to the drink-driving one. He was sentenced to three weeks' jail and fined $6,000, and was disqualified from driving for four years on the first conviction, and fined $800 and given a four-month driving ban on the second.

This fella smoked in a non-smoking table of the coffee shop. The smoking corner is 10 tables down the row, so no excuse about not knowing. Plenty of empty tables around, so no excuse of no table. Simple plain lazy and bo chup. After smoking one stick, hands conveniently swing to the ground, cigarette butt dropped to floor, shoes stepped on butt to snub it out. Fantastic, skilfully done ... must be doing this all his life ... while it lasts ... It was raining ... so as most people know ... smokers are weak when it's raining ... so out came another cigarette ... still in the non-smoking table of coffee shop NEA officers should hang around more often during raining days. Catch these buggers, fine them big time. Any NEA officers reading this, contact me. I'll take time and be prosecution witness. I will show you which table and coffeeshop so you can match the photo and the facts.

yesterday i was in great world city basement carpark, then i saw this ang mo guy with his left arm casted up and strap to the shoulders. interesting thing is tat, he walks to a car and get onto the driver's seat and drives off. the car is just behind mine and with a premier logo, so i guess its a rental car? ( camry by the way ) sorry to say, but does any traffic laws dictate whether anyone can drive with only 1 hand?

The Best 50 of Murphy's Law You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the track. Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence. Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some damn fool discovers something which either abolishes the system or expands it beyond recognition. Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand. If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. The opulence of the front office decor varies inversely with the fundamental solvency of the firm. The attention span of a computer is only as long as it electrical cord. An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing. Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure. All great discoveries are made by mistake. Always draw your curves, then plot your reading. Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget. All's well that ends. A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost. The first myth of management is that it exists. A failure will not appear till a unit has passed final inspection. New systems generate new problems. To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer. We don't know one millionth of one percent about anything. Any given program, when running, is obsolete. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. A computer makes as many mistakes in two seconds as 20 men working 20 years make. The faster a computer is, the faster it will reach a crashed state. Nothing motivates a man more than to see his boss putting in an honest day's work. Some people manage by the book, even though they don't know who wrote the book or even what book. The primary function of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the fabricator and impossible for the serviceman. To spot the expert, pick the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most. After all is said and done, a hell of a lot more is said than done. Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable and three parts which are still under development. A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works. If mathematically you end up with the incorrect answer, try multiplying by the page number. Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable. Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable. Give all orders verbally. Never write anything down that might go into a "Pearl Harbor File." Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables the organism will do as it damn well pleases. If you can't understand it, it is intuitively obvious. The more cordial the buyer's secretary, the greater the odds that the competition already has the order. In designing any type of construction, no overall dimension can be totaled correctly after 4:30 p.m. on Friday. The correct total will become self-evident at 8:15 a.m. on Monday. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches. All things are possible except skiing through a revolving door. The only perfect science is hind-sight. Work smarder and not harder and be careful of yor speling. If it's not in the computer, it doesn't exist. If an experiment works, something has gone wrong. When all else fails, read the instructions. If there is a possibility of several things going wrong the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong. Everything that goes up must come down. Any instrument when dropped will roll into the least accessible corner. Any simple theory will be worded in the most complicated way. Build a system that even a fool can use and only a fool will want to use it. The degree of technical competence is inversely proportional to the level of management. Any attempt to print Murphy's laws will jam the printer.

Recently my wife lent our king size bedsheet to her mum n dad.... i objected cos i dun like others to use my bedsheets, but she said its normal to share around bedsheets, as long as we wash it after use.. what u guys think? wil u share bedsheets with others? yes? no?

Following revelations by the President of the Association of Criminal Lawyers in Singapore that the laws here, don't seem to be applied fairly and equally to all irregardless of wealth status or political standings which was quickly rebuffed by the present AG. Not withstanding whether there was indeed a marsupial hopping around the court yard , if the above was indeed true to a certain extent ..what then must be done to correct it?

on one of my visits to pump petrol, seems like they don't check VLT at the customs.

got this from a friend, I hope it's not a repost ------------------------------------------------------------ *Some Important Laws that Newton forgot to state* *LAW OF QUEUE: * *If you change queues, the one you have left will start to move faster than the one you are in now. * *LAW OF TELEPHONE: * *When you dial a wrong number, you never get an engaged one.* *LAW OF MECHANICAL REPAIR: * *After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch.* *LAW OF THE WORKSHOP: * *Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.* *LAW OF THE ALIBI: * *If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire. * *BATH** THEOREM: * *When the body is immersed in water, the telephone rings.* *LAW OF ENCOUNTERS: * *The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don't want to be seen with. * *LAW OF THE RESULT: * *When you try to prove to someone that a machine won't work, it will!* *LAW OF BIOMECHANICS: * *The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.* *THEATRE RULE: * *People with the seats at the furthest from the aisle arrive last.* *LAW OF COFFEE: As soon as you sit down for a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold. *

Extracted from http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/viewPost1917.aspx Your car windows may be tinted too dark for Malaysia. Lawrence Lee, 47, was on his way to Malacca on Feb 10 when he was stopped by the Malaysian traffic police for having side windows that were too dark. According to Mr Lee, the traffic police tested his windows and found that the light transmittance was about 30%, below the 50% required in Malaysia. Mr Lee was fined RM300. The official website of the Malaysian transport authority states that 70% of all light must be able to pass through the front and rear windscreens and 50% of light through the side windows. Offenders can be fined up to RM500 and even be imprisoned up to 2 weeks. In comparison, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) allows darker rear windows in Singapore: the resultant light transmittance for the rear windscreen and rear passenger windows only need to be more than 25%. For front windscreen and front side windows, the requirement is 70%. In other words, your tinted rear windows may be perfectly legal in Singapore, but run afoul of the laws in Malaysia when you drive up north. "I just want to raise the awareness that you can be booked for things other than speeding, and I urge other drivers to be careful," Mr Lee explained. "I wonder if they'll book me for my big sports rims next time?" Looked like Malaysia damn "Bway Song" Singaporeans and is trying to find fault with us, sometimes I was thinking, is it worth risking going inside??

http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/viewPost1917.aspx Please beware before you enter North. But I see many SG cars here have their windows very tint which definitely fail the LTA specs...hmmm